On Tuesday night the ESPN show E:60 will air a segment about parents who purchase sperm from athletes in an attempt to have children who will grow up to be great athletes themselves some day. I watched an advance screening of the segment, and it got me to thinking: Michael Phelps could make a fortune by selling his sperm.
Phelps already has a fortune, of course, and he might not feel the need to use sperm sales to make more money. And sperm banks almost always make their sales anonymous, so there would be all kinds of issues if thousands of women decided to pay to get impregnated by Phelps.
But make no mistake: The market for athletes' sperm is big, and it appears to be growing. The E:60 segment on athletes' sperm is done by Tom Farrey, who has also written a book called Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of our Children.
Farrey demonstrates that many parents go to the sperm bank wanting to pass on the DNA of athletes. And he visits the world's largest sperm bank, California Cryobank in Los Angeles, where, ESPN reports, the seed of Division I athletes sells fast.
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8-22-2008 @ 7:36PM
petejayhawk said...
There are plenty of girls in and around Ann Arbor who got Phelps' sperm for the low, low price of their self-respect.
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8-23-2008 @ 11:37AM
§ said...
and guys too!
8-22-2008 @ 8:35PM
music711 said...
And you think a gallon of gas is expensive!!
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8-22-2008 @ 10:01PM
Reb said...
I had NO idea that human sperm was collected/sought after like prize animal sperm is. I understand the horse/bull/dog sperm studding thing.. but the human factor, kinda squiks me out.
I'm pretty sure Michael would have better sense than to do something like that.
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8-22-2008 @ 10:21PM
tifereth said...
I don't see michael as the type of guy that would ever sell his sperm. he has much too much class and decency to ever do that. he is way too cool to get involved in such a strange practice.
he will want to have his own kids the normal way, after he gets married, to the luckiest girl in the world.
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8-27-2008 @ 1:07PM
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8-27-2008 @ 2:57PM
prjindigo said...
the funny thing is... you get your metabolism, your energy conversion ratio, from your mother. Phelps isn't a genius and he's ugly as sin. Why try to get pregnant with an ugly stupid arrogant destructive brat who has YOUR performance? You'd be better off randomly humping a guy at the grocery store.
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